Overview
Wabasha is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,592 people and just one neighborhood, Wabasha is the 276th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Wabasha was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wabasha is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wabasha is a city of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wabasha who work in management occupations (22.81%), sales jobs (11.55%), and healthcare (10.80%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.35% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wabasha has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wabasha has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wabasha than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wabasha may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Wabasha doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of Wabasha overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Wabasha, 24.36% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wabasha in 2022 was $42,909, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $171,636 for a family of four. However, Wabasha contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wabasha home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wabasha residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Wabasha include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Wabasha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wabasha, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
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Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 56.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.4% have Belgian ancestry.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wabasha are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.1% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.8%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Wabasha, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (56.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.0%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
